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Constant hammering by hackers and mutilation by malware have motivated Facebook to enact new security measures. It's now incorporating the malicious URL databases from Microsoft, McAfee, Trend Micro, Sophos and Symantec into its URL blacklist system, which scans trillions of clicks a day. The social...
With the launch of Google Drive on Tuesday, the number of cloud storage service options for consumers has become bewildering. Players include Google with Google Drive, Windows Live SkyDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, YouSendIt, SpiderOak, SugarSync, Box.net, Amazon Cloud Drive and Ubuntu One. On a basic leve...
Marla Cilley, aka the FlyLady, knows a thing or two about housecleaning. One of those things is that it's hard to get motivated to do it. To address this problem, she created an empire around inspiring others to step up their housecleaning game. "We do behavior modification through email, Facebook a...
When the Europeans set out to explore and colonize the world, they did so as much to bring riches back to their native lands as to build empires. A similar quest is driving a new breed of intrepid explorers to look to space. This time it may also be in pursuit of riches -- but it will take riches to...
Google on Tuesday unveiled Google Drive, its long-anticipated storage locker in the cloud. The service incorporates Google Docs and lets users upload, access and share their files, including videos, photos and PDFs. Google Drive works on Macs and PCs, and an Android app is available. An iOS app is i...
Microsoft is giving its SkyDrive cloud storage service a makeover that will include new apps and greater synchronization abilities across mobile and PC devices. The new service includes SkyDrive for the Windows desktop, so it can be managed right from Windows Explorer or from SkyDrive.com. Users can...
You've probably heard the term "consumerization of IT." Some of the network and security pros reading this probably think this is yet another meaningless industry buzzword with little or no value. However, to dismiss it as such is to potentially miss out on what is both a very powerful concept ... ...
Intel's highly anticipated Ivy Bridge chips, which offer the promise of significant improvements in speed and power usage along with support for USB 3.0, were officially launched on Monday. The first wave of these new chips, which offer a smaller package compared to Intel's current Sandy Bridge chip...
Come July 9, about 350,000 computers in the United States alone may lose access to the Internet because they had previously been infected with DNSChanger malware. The malware stealthily redirected victims accessing various websites to rogue servers controlled by a cybercriminal ring. Six of the seve...
Last week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission let Google off with a tap on the wrist for hindering the commission's efforts to investigate allegations that Google was slurping information from WiFi networks with its fleet of mapping vehicles.The search giant's punishment -- a $25,000 fine le...
Demo is a fascinating show. What you see is a string of companies that each have six minutes to pitch their products to an audience of media, investors, other companies (who might buy them), and peers. My initial thought is that my friend Carmine Gallo, who wrote The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jo...
IBM researchers are looking to go the distance with electric vehicles. On Friday, Big Blue announced that material innovation developers Asahi Kasei and Central Glass had joined its Battery 500 Project team to develop new battery technology for electric vehicles. IBM Research has been striving to de...
AT&T could shake up the voice-recognition market when it launches several application programming interfaces for its Watson speech recognition program in June. Developers will be able to use these APIs to create new apps and services with voice recognition and transcription capabilities. AT&...
If you work with SIEM, you've been spending more than a couple of years, dealing with "Big Data" -- more lines of logs than any one person, or even a reasonable-sized team of people, could ever hope to keep up with reading through. Our data is plenty big enough already. So why is everyone so hyped o...
X-ray vision won't just be limited to comic book superheroes in the future. A team at the University of Texas at Dallas led by Kenneth O, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineering, has made new scientific advances that could make it possible for cameras to see through solid walls. The researchers...
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